If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning.
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The first novel of the series. Tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who are orphaned by an arsonous fire and sent to live with their distant and conniving cousin Count Olaf, a horrible guardian, only interested in the fortune left behind by their parents.
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Un mal principio (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
September 7, 2004, Montena, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Paperback
in Spanish
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Nés sous une mauvaise étoile (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
2002, Éditions Héritage
in French
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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
August 25, 1999, HarperCollins Publishers
Library binding
in English
- 1st ed.
0060283122 9780060283124
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The Bad Beginning: (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
September 30, 1999, HarperCollins Publishers, Scholastic Inc.
Paperback, Hardcover
in English
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
1999, HarperCollins
Hardcover
in English
- First Edition
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After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
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